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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It should be between UVA and Emory. The other two don't have strong national brands. [/quote]

Tufts and WashU are more selective than UVA and Emory.  So some people with high stats must be mistaken.[/quote]
Maybe UVA but not Emory, Tufts and Emory are quite equal, WashU a bit more selective.

Emory 1350-1520/31-34/ 84% top ten percent

Tufts   1380-1530/31-34/ 78% top ten percent[/quote]

Only 25% of Tufts entering students had class rank provided and 29% at Emory.  It was 20% at WashU.  So not sure what to make of class rank anymore.  The better and more affluent high schools don't provide it now.

I agree Tufts and Emory are pretty close on standardized scores.   WashU is higher, actually near Harvard levels.

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Does one need to survey the entire sample population to get an accurate result? No[/quote]

No, but what they could be doing is accepting top 10% with lower other stats to get that number up, then focusing on high ACT/SAT kids for the remaining 80%.  I think this is what Vanderbilt did when it started its rise in selectivity.  When you only have 20% of kids counting against top 10% and don't report GPA etc. (which would be meaningless anyway due to differences in calculations) it allows schools to focus on high standardized scores and lowering admit rate.  [/quote]

There's no proof that Vandy did this and the others didn't. I was just trying to dispel this notion that WashU and especially Tufts is better than Emory and UVA. Tufts has never been ranked as high as Emory. Tufts students don't win awards as Emory students do. Tufts only has 4 Rhodes Scholars in over 100 years,  While Emory has 20, and UVA has over 50 ( WashU has 27). Tufts is boosted by New England bias and is not as good as the others. That bias allows it to get good students but it's reputation doesn't match its ranking. [/quote]

Your misguided focus on quantitative metrics and the overall idiocy of your attempt to parse rankings of top schools suggests you know absolutely nothing about the college selection process. I hope your children aren't as simple and myopic.[/quote]

Somehow I'm simple and Myopic, but Tufts is a better school without ANY MEASURABLE advantages over Emory. Help me make sense of it, all-knowing one?![/quote]

You should note that I wrote the line that started with "No, but what they could be doing. . .", but someone else wrote the "Your misguided focus on quantitative metrics" response.   It could also be that they were referring to me with that.[/quote]

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